Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board

The Raspberry Pi Pico development kit, built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon, has been designed to bring high performance and ease of use to the microcontroller market. It is a flexible development platform that can also be directly deployed into end products, reducing time to market.

At the heart of the product is the RP2040, a Raspberry Pi-designed microcontroller that offers high performance for integer workloads, a large on-chip memory and a wide range of I/O options, making it a flexible solution for a wide range of microcontroller applications. It features two ARM Cortex-M0+ cores clocked at 133 MHz; 264 kB of on-chip SRAM; 30 multifunction GPIO pins; dedicated hardware for commonly used peripherals alongside a programmable I/O subsystem for extended peripheral support; a four-channel ADC with internal temperature sensor; and built-in USB 1.1 with host and device support.

Professional design engineers who are already comfortable working with Raspberry Pi will appreciate the development board’s ease of use. The onboard power supply can generate 3.3 V for the microcontroller and external circuitry. A wide input voltage range, from 1.8 to 5.5 V, gives designers the flexibility to select their preferred power source. Simple drag-and-drop programming is offered via micro-USB.